Mafters, and Mr. Dyer, the Mafter, and Lieutenant Campbell, the Marine Officer in mentioning them to your Lordship I comply with their Captain's with. I beg your Lordships will mention Lieutenant Durell and Lieutenant Irvine to my Lords Commithioners of the Admiralty as Officers deferving of the higheft commendation. The hips taken are La Refiftance, commanded by Monfieur Montagne, mounting 48 guns, 18-pounders, on her main-deck, and manned with 345 men. She is only fix months old, built upon a new construction, and is in every refpect one of the finest frigates the French had, and certainly the largeft, measuring 45 feet beam. The other frigate, La Conftance, commanded by Monfieur Defauney, mounting 24 nine-pounders upon the main-deck, and manned with 189 men: he is two years old, and a very fine fhip. These are two of the frigates which landed troops in Wales: it is a pleafing circumftance to have completed the failure of that expedition. I am particularly happy to inform your Lordship, that neither the St. Fiorenzo nor La Nymphe have had any men killed or wounded, or the hips hurt; the St. Fiorenzo only having received two hot in her hull. La Refiftance had ten men killed, the first Lieutenant and eight men wounded; La Conftance had eight men killed and fix wounded. I have the honour to be Your Lordship's most obedient Servant, H. NEALE. Admiral Lord Bridport, K. B. &c. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, MARCH 18. Extract of a Letter from Vice- Admiral Kingfmill, Commander in Chief of bis Majefly's Ships and Veffels at Cork, to Evan Nepean, Efq. dated on board bis Majesty's Ship Polyphemus in Cork Harbour, the 10th of March 1797. PLEASE to inform my Lords Commiflioners of the Admiralty that his Majefly's fhip Alcmene arrived here laft evening from Lough Swilly by the weftward, and in her way has captured a French privateer fhip of 16 guns and 156 men, off the Skelligs, as will be further explained in the accompanying letter from Captain Brown. Alcmene, Cork Cove, March 9, 1797. SIR, BE pleafed to communicate to the Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty, that being off the Skelligs Rocks, on the 6th of March, making the best of VOL. XXXI. JUNE 1797. my way to Cork, I faw a ship standing for the S. W. which I immediately pur fued, and, after a feventeen hours chace, captured her; the proves to be the Surveillant privateer of 16 guns and 156 men; had been out thirty-two days from Bourdeaux; had taken two brigs, the one from Lisbon, and the other from Liverpool, the latter of which (loaded with coals) I had the good fortune to re-capture, and have allowed her Master to proceed to his original deftination. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your moft obedient humble Servant, W. BROWN. To Vice-Admiral Kingsmill, &c. ADMIRALTY - OFFICE, MARCH, 25, 1797. Extract of a Letter from Rear-Admiral Sir John Orde, Bart. Commanding Officer of his Majefty's Ships and Veffels ar Plymouth, to Evan Nepean, Esq. dated the 22d of March 1797. INCLOSED I fend you a letter from Lieutenant Elliot, commanding the armed lugger Plymouth, acquainting me with his having taken and brought into this port a fmall French privateer of four guns and twenty-nine men, in purfuit of which I had ordered him yesterday, in confequence of a fignal from the Telegraph of an enemy's fmall cruizer being off the Start. On board his Majefty's armed Lugger the Plymouth, in Hamoaze, March 22, 1797. SIR, In purfuance of your orders of yefterday, I got his Majefty's hired lugger under my command under weigh, and went in purfuit of the enemy's cruizer, as denoted per fignal; and I have the pleasure to inform you, that the Start bearing North, diftant three leagues, I fell in with and captured this morning, after a fhort chace, L'Epervier French privateer, mounting four carriage guns, two of which were thrown overboard in chace, three fwivels, and otherwife well armed with finall arms; is floop rigged, and navigated with 29 men, Dick Poiffon, Captain, formerly an English thrawl boat: he is three days from Breft, and had taken nothing. I have the honour to remain, Sir, Your humble Servant, ROB. ELLIOT. To Sir John Orde, Bart. Rear-Admiral of the White, &c. &c. &c. Copy of a Letter from Mr. William Wiljon, Collector of the Cufloms at Weymouth, to Evan Nepean, Efq. dated March 23, 1797. SIR, I HAVE the honour to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty, that yefterday evening arrived the Greyhound Revenue cutter, Captain Wilkinfon, with a French privateer, lugger rigged, called La Libertè, commanded by Citizen Barnard Emanuel Papillon, with four fwivel guns, plenty of fmall arms, cutlaffes, &c. and manned with eighteen men, which he fell in with the 21t inft. about eleven o'clock A.M. off the Owers, fteering into a convoy, and, after a chace of eight hours, captured, about three leagues from Cape Barfleur: the is entirely new, never was at lea before, failed from Havre Sunday laft, and had taken nothing. I am, Sir, &c. SIR, On my arrival in this country, I did not fail to lay before the Admiral my inftructions, and to confult with him upon the means to carry them into execution. I found in him every defire to co-operate in the execution of the views to which they are directed. The arrival of part of the convoy from England enabled us to proceed with confidence in our operations; therefore, as foon as the troops could be collected from the different iflands, which were ordered to rendezvous at Cariacou, the Admiral failed from Martinique, which inland be left with his fquadron on the 12th inft. The precision with which the Admiral had given his orders to affemble the thips of war and tranfports, left us not a moment of delay. On the 15th, in the morning, the fleet failed from Cariacou. On the 16th, in the afternoon, it poffed through the Bocas, or entrance into the Gulf of Paria, where we found the Spanish Admiral, with four fail of the line and a frigate, at anchor, under cover of the land of Gafpagrande, which was fortified. Our fquadron worked up, and came to anchor oppofite to, and nearly within gunshot of the Spanish fhips. The frigates and tranfports were ordered to anchor higher up in the Bay, and at the diftance nearly of five miles from the town of Port D'Espagne. The difpofition was immediately made for landing at daylight next morning, and for a general attack upon the town and fhips of war. At two o'clock in the morning of the 17th, we perceived the Spanish fqua. dron to be on fire; the hips burɛt with great fury, one line of battle p excepted, which efcaped the conflagration, and was taken poffeffion of at day-light in the morning by the boats from our fleet: the enemy at the faine time evacuated the ifland, and abandoned that quarter. This unexpected turn of affairs directed our whole attention to the attack of the town. The troops were immediately ordered to land, and, as foun as a few hundred men could be got on hore, about four miles to the weftward of it, we advanced, meeting with little or no refiftance. Before night we were mafters of Port D'Espague and the neighbourhood, two fmall forts excepted. In the morning a capitulation was entered into with the Governor, Don Chacon, and in the evening all the Spanish troops laid down their arms, and the whole colony paffed under the dominion of his Britannic Majetty. Copies of the Capitulation, of the ftores and provifions taken, are hortwith tranfmitted. It is a peculiar fatisfaction to me that there is no lift of killed or wounded; Lieut. Villeneuve, of the 8th regiment of foot, who was Brigade Major to Brigadier - General Hompefch, being the only perfon who was wounded, and he is fince dead of his wounds. From the Admiral I have experienced every pollible co-operation. Captain Woolley, of his Majesty's thip the Are thufa, and Captain Wood, of the F2vourite floop of war, who had been fent to reconnoitre in the Gulph of Paria, afforded us minute information of the fituation of the enemy previes to our arrival. Captain Woolley, wha directed the difembarkation, thewed ad the zeal and intelligence which I have experienced from him on former occa Ĥons. fions. To Lord Craven, who begged to attend the expedition, I am indebted for great zeal and exertion. Lieutenant-Colonel Soter, who is intimately acquainted with this country, has been, and continues to be, of very great ufe to me. I fhould not do juftice to his general character, if I did not take this opportunity to exprefs it. My Aid-de-Camp, Capt. Drew, of the 45th regiment. will have the honour to deliver this letter: he has ferved long in this country, and is capable to give fuch further information as may be required. I humbly beg leave to recom. mend him to his Majefty's favour. I have the honour to be, &c. RA. ABERCROMBY, K. B. ARTICLES OF CAPITULATION For the Surrender of the Inland of Trinidad, between his Excellency Sir Ralph Abercromby, K. B. Con man ifland, after having burnt and abandon. ed his fhips, he, with the Officers and men belonging to the fquadron under his command, are included in this capitulation, under the fame terms as are granted to his Catholic Maj fty's troops. Art. V. As foon as thips can be conveniently provided for the purpose, the prifoners are to be conveyed to Old Spain, they remaining prifoners of war until exchanged by a Carrel between the two Nations, or until the Peace; it being clearly understood that they fhall not ferve against Great Britain or her Allies until exchanged. Art. VI. There being fome Officers among his Catholic Majesty's troops, whofe private affairs require their prefence at different places of the Continent of America, fuch Officers are perfaid places for fix months, inore or less, mitted to go upon their parole to the after which period they are to return der in Chief of his Britannic Mato Europe; but as the number receiv jesty's Land Forces; his Excellency Henry Harvey, Elfq. Rear-Admiraling this indulgence must be limited, of the Red, and Commander in vicufly deliver to the British Comman his Excellency Don Chacon wil. preChief of his Britannic Majefty's Ships and Veffels of War; and his xcl. lency Don Jofef Maria Chacon, Knight of the Order of Calatrava, Brigadier of the Royal Navy, Governor and Commander in Chief of the land of Trinidad and its De pendencies, Infpector-General of the Troops of its Garrifon, &c. &c. &c. Art. I. The Officers and troops of his Catholic Majefty and his allies in the Inland of Trinidad are to furrender themselves prifoners of war, and are to deliver up the territory, forts, buildings, arms, ammunition, money, effects, plans, and ftores, with exact inventories thereof, belonging to his Catholic Majefty; and they are thereby transferred to his Britannic Majeft, in the fame manner and poffeffion as has been held heretofore by his faid Catholic Majefty. Art. II. The troops of his Catholic Majefty are to march out with the honours of war, and to lay down their arms, at the distance of three hundred paces from the forts they occupy, at five c'clock this evening, the 18th of February. Art. III. All the Officers and troops aforefaid of his Catholic Majesty are allowed to keep their private effects, and the Officers are allowed to wear their fwords. Art. IV. Admiral Don Sebaftian Ruiz de Apodaca, being on there in the ders Adminiftration, upon the delivery of Art. VIII. All the private property of the inhabitants, as well Spaniards as fuch as may have been naturalized, is preferved to them. Art. IX. All public records are to be preferved in fuch courts or offices as they are now in, and ail contracts or purchafes between individuals, which have been done according to the laws of Spain, are to be held binding and valid by the British Government. Art. X. The Spanish Officers of Administration, who are poffeffed of landed property in Trinidad, are allowed to remain in the Island, they taking the oaths of allegiance to his Britannic Majefty; and they are further allowed, fhould they pleafe, to fell or difpofe of their property, and to retire e fewhere. Art. XI. The free exercife of theirreligion is allowed to the inhabitants. Art. XII. The free coloured people, who have been acknowledged as fach by the laws of Spain, thall be protected Kkka in in their liberty, perfons, and property, like other inhabitants; they taking the oath of allegiance, and demeaning themselves as becomes good and peaceable fubjects of his Britannic Majefty. Art. XIII. The failors and foldiers of his Catholic Majefty are, from the time of their laying down their arms, to be fed by the British Government, leaving the expence to be regulated by the cartel between the two nations. Art. XIV. The fick of the Spanish troops will be taken care of, but to be attended, and to be under the infpection of their own furgeons. Art. XV. All the inhabitants of Trinidad fhall, within thirty days from the date hereof, take the oath of allegiance to his Britannic Majefty, to demean themfelves quietly and faithfully to his Government, upon pain, in cafe of non-compliance, of being fent away from the Ifland. Done at Port d'Espagne, in thelfland of Trinidad, the 11th of February 1797. Ralph Abercromby, Henry Harvey. fofef Maria Chacon. Return of the Spanish Garrison of the land of Trinidad made Prifoners of War, Feb. 18, 1797. Royal Artillery.-1 Captain, 1 Lieutenant, 43 Non-commiflioned Officers, Drummers, and Privates. Engineers.- -1 Brigadier, 2 Captains, 1 Subaltern. Trinidad Regiment.-z LieutenantColonels, 2 Captains, 15 Subalterns, 1 Adjutant, 2 Enlighs, 1 Surgeon, 1 Chaplain, 504 Non-commiffioned Officers, Drummers, and Privates. I French Officers.-1 Lieutenant-Colonel, 3 Captains, 1 Subaltern, 2 Engi neers. Fifty men fick in General Hofpital. JOHN HOPE, Adj, Gen. Return of the Naval Officers and Seamen made Prifoners of War at the Capture of Trinidad, Feb. 18, 1797. Chef D'Efcadre, 1 Brigadier, 5 Captains of Line of Battle Ships, 3 Captains of Frigates, 7 Lieutenants of Ditto, 74 Officers of all Defcriptions, 91 Officers, 581 Marines, 1032 Seamen. -Total of Marines and Seamen, 1613. (Signed) JOHN HOPE, Adj. Gen. [This Gazette alfo contains the official returns of 33 pieces of brafs, and 40 pieces of iron ordnance, with an immenfe quantity of ammunition, ordnance ftores, and tools, and fome provifions, found on the Inland.] . [FROM THE OTHER PAPERS.] (From the Court Gazette.) YESTERDAY the following proclamation was published: "The Preliminary Articles of Peace are figned, in confequence of which hoftilities have ceafed, and the hope of a fpeedy reftoration of peace is brought nearer to its completion. "His Imperial Majefty will feel the moft heart-felt pleasure, fhould he fucceed in his endeavours to put an end to the war, and spare the effufion of human blood, and by a lafting peace fecure the honour and happiness of his beloved fubjects. His Majefty has therefore given it in charge to the underfigned, to give public notice of the figning of the Preliminary Articles of Peace, and the confequent retiring of the French army; and fince by this event the country of Lower Auftria is freed from the immediate danger with which it was threatened, his Majefty will no longer impofe on his brave and loyal fubjects the burden of bearing arms, and therefore commands that the general levy be fuperfeded. His Imperial Majefty has likewife given orders, that a medal shall be ftruck fuitable to the occafion, which fhall be worn on the breaft by thofe who voluntarily took up arms for the general levy, as an honourable teftimony of the gratitude of the country for their fidelity and valour. "It is now therefore the will of his Majefty, that the peafants should return to their ruftic labours, the ftudents to their schools, and the artizans to their refpective employments; and by induf try, economy, and morals, diftinguish themfelves, as much as by the fpirit with which they armed in defence of their country. Should, however, contrary to every expectation, the pacific views of his Imperial Majefty be fruftrated by any adverfe circumstances, he is confi dent that he can rely on the tried valour and unfhaken fidelity of all his fubjects." General Buonaparte has published an important Manifetto against the Vene tian Government, charging them with various acts of hoftility whilft the French army was engaged in the defiles of Styria; with infulting all Frenchmen in Venice, by calling them Jacobins, Regicides, and Atheists, and prohibiting their refidence in that city; with intercepting their convoys, murdering their couriers, and affaffinating 200 men on the the roads to Legnano and Verona, and DOMESTIC DUBLIN, MAY 16. French agents to quit the Venetian ter- As foon as the Government of Venice was acquainted with this Manifefto, the Doge affembled the Senate; and it was refolved that the Republic fhould throw herfelf upon the discretion of France, accept a provifional Government, and deliver up to the French the Proveditori, and other public functionaries complain ed of in the Manifetto. INTELLIGENCE. AMOST awful fo &tacle took place at the camp at Baris Warren: four privates of the Monaghan Militia, in purfuance of th fentence of a Court Martial, were fht. Thefe men had been feduced from their allegiance by the United Irithmen; they had engaged to defert from their Officers upon a fignal, and were actually appointed Officers, and had received commiffions to act in a rebel corps. The enormity of the offence was of that magnitude, that the lenity of Government could not be extended to them, and the fentence of the law was accordingly executed. The whole of the execution was conducted with the greatet folemnity; the proceffion of the troops from Belfast was marked by its regularity and filence. On the ground were drawn up a detachment of the 22d dragoons, a detachment of the Royal artillery, the 64th regiment, the 3d batallion of light infantry, the Monaghan and Carlow regiments of militia, the Bradalbane and Argyle fencibles. After the execution the troops marched in ordinary time by the bodies, which had been conveyed to the church-yard; and the ceremony clofed, leaving the ftrongeft fymptoms of impreffion on all the fpectators. JUNE 2. This morning their Serene Higneffes fet out from St. James's for Harwich, on their way to Germany, efcorted by a party of Light Dragoons. The Prince and Princefs were in the King's travelling poft-chaife; General Garth and the Countefs of Aylesbury, in one of the Queen's coaches, and the attendants in one of the private carriages. Their Serene Highneffes break fafted at St. James's palace, and fet ff from the garden gate. The Princets was dreffed in a blue riding habit, with the ftar of the order of St. Catherine at her 4 endeavoured to appear chearful, but the faultering accents with which the bade her attendants and the furrounding multitude farewel, bespoke the agita tion of her Serene Highness. The Prince appeared feveral times at the window, and affectionately embraced his amiable confort on their leaving the apartments. The fcene was highly af-" fecting, and drew tears from many of the fpectators. None of the Royal Family were prefent, as they had taken leave the preceding night at twelve o'clock. They were all fo deeply affected on her Serene Highnefs's parting with them, that it is impoffible to do justice to their feelings upon the occafion. Her Majefty and the Princeffes thed abundant tears, while the Princefs hung upon her Royal father's neck, overwhelmed in grief. -The Prince at length prevailed on her Serene Highnefs to go with him, and fup, orted her to the coach. The King followed them to bid his daughter an affectionate farewel, but fooverpowered were his parental feelings, that he could fcarcely give utterance to his words. 5. This morning were executed at the front of N-wgate, Clinch and Mac-. ley, for the robbery and murder of Mr. Fryer, in Iflington-fields. An extreme. ly difagreeable circumitance that occurred, fhortened the period that is ufually aliowed to men in their unhappy fituations.-The floor of the fcaffold, from fome previous mifarrangement, gave way, and precipitated into the area of the apparatus Meffieurs Villette and Gaffy, (the latter a Catholic priest who attended Clinch) and the two executioners. Mr. Sheriff Staines had himfelf a very narrow efcape. Mr. Gaffy, being a lufty man, was feverely hurts He was obliged to be bled, and was more than four hours in the Keeper's house before |